Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States Senator, or simply obtaining an outstanding liberal education at a well-situated college, look closely at Princeton." If the name you want is Harvard, "the essence of its life provides a challenge and experience unmatched at any American university." That is, of course, unless you are at Dartmouth where team spirit "helps provide identity and direction, it sharpens challenges, helps make life exciting." And on and on. The descriptions of each of the eight Ivy schools have as much zest as a half-time show on the College Bowl...
...factual background on each school varies from irrelevant to misleading. Two-thirds of the first page on Penn talks about a new swimming pool. Dartmouth is most famous for its computer (after its team spirit, of course) and secondly famous because "even classrooms are left unlocked after hours to allow extra study space for students who want an entire room, complete with blackboards, chalk, and 20 empty desks, to study in." Only after six pages of computer sketches of Snoopy and praise for the Dartmouth campus--traditional Ivy Covered in rural New England setting--do the authors drop Dartmouth...
...really, Harvard students don't want to know about Dartmouth's computer; we don't care if Princetonians call Main Street "the street." We want to know what Harvard is supposed...
...player from each of the area's four Ivy League colleges was cited, with Yale's outstanding sophomore, Jim Morgan, receiving a spot on the second team. In addition to Gallagher, Alex Winn of Dartmouth, and Bruce Moger of Brown earned honorable mention...
...honors a Harvard graduate and Boston lawyer who helped solve the financial problems of Hungary, China, and Mexico after World War I. Smith came from a legal family: his father was the Story Professor of Law at Harvard, and his great-grandfather helped Daniel Webster argue the famous Dartmouth College case...